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Minifying and concatenating your scripts and stylesheets in WordPress with MinQueue

Last week I was at Smashing Conference in Oxford manning the WordPress.com stand with a few fellow Automatticians. I was asked a couple of times about why WordPress doesn’t automatically minify and concatenate scripts and stylesheets – the array of scripts and stylesheets that WordPress loads can be severely inflated by various plugins and themes and the hit to performance is not insignificant.

I can think of quite a few reasons why this isn’t handled automatically, but it did get me thinking that it wouldn’t be too difficult to build a plugin that does just that.